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Baking Soda Clears Building
Sunday, July 10, 2005

An ulcer remedy caused quite a stir in New York last month.

Federal employees streamed out of the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building (search) in downtown Manhattan, and a day care center on the premises was evacuated, after white powder was found in the sock of a man arriving for an immigration appointment around 9 a.m. on June 29.

After the initial commotion had died down, Tahir Taravari, a 55-year-old Staten Island resident originally from Macedonia, told the gathered security officials â€â€